Finance Data Analyst - (CONTRACT)

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POSITION INFO:

The Finance Data Analyst is a skilled individual with a mature understanding of Data Management best practices and recognition of data as an asset. In understanding and using data appropriately, solutions are designed and built to assist stakeholders with producing reports and dashboards that will enable informed business decisions. This role requires a committed, analytical individual with excellent communication skills. An accounting qualification with experience working in a finance function will be required for this role.
• Finance / Accounting / Data analysis
• Finance data reconciliations
• Update Finance Data mappings
• Identify gaps in the data
• Liaise with the business to get the data signed off
• Consolidate data mappings to work more efficiently
• Stakeholder management and communication skills
• Execution to data analysis methodology
• Applying and anticipating data expertise
• Data Impact Assessment
• Process and data integrity
• Project Skills
• Strong Analytical Skills

Skills and Qualification
• Insurance or Financial Services experience or Finance/financial reporting processes and systems
• Financial accounting / Financial reporting capability
• Group consolidation and finance data preferable.
• Finance experience & background
• Exposure to a complex organisational structure at Group level
• CA(SA) / CIMA – beneficial
• Technologies: SQL, PowerBI, Data Warehousing, Tabular cubes
• Advantageous: Tertiary qualification in Information Systems, or related field
• Advantageous: Analytical and BI experience in financial reporting

Competencies:
• Build trusted relationship with stakeholders and ensure that business challenges, needs, and processes are understood
• Gather, clarify, and document data and reporting requirements
• Perform data profiling and analysis to ensure thorough understanding of data, relationships, and quality
• Independently or collaboratively design data models to meet business requirement
• Produce clear and comprehensive analysis and design artefacts such as data flows, source to target mappings, data models, sample reports/dashboards
• Build proof-of-concept or mock-ups to illustrate functionality and/or output
• Engage with technical team and support the development process
• Test and monitor testing to ensure quality final delivery
• Build output e.g. Power BI reports and/or dashboards
• Prepare and present regular progress updates to stakeholders
• Follow Data Management best practices, particularly ensuring Data Governance is in place

Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks.